I had a beech stock recheckered last year with skip line checkering and thought it would be a good idea to have it dipped in a fancy walnut, unfortunately the dipping filled in all the checkering, so I used paint stripper (the proper stuff you get off the bay) and it's taken most of it off but I'm struggling to get it out the checkering now, so I may take it too a furniture stripper to see if they can get it all off.
Pete